Outwitting The Devil

In the digital world, where emails and messages fly around like birds in the sky, we’re about to dive into something special on the List building lifestyle show with your host, Igor Kheifets. Today we’re exploring a powerful book called Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill. This isn’t just any episode, it’s a journey into how to stop drifting through life without direction and start living your purpose. Igor will share his own story, including how he decided to move to Canada, showing us how having clear goals can change everything. So, get ready to learn how to kick procrastination to the curb, and live a life full of action and purpose. Join us on this adventure brought to you with the help of an artificially generated voice inspired by Sir David Attenborough. Let’s get started.

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I’m Igor Kheifets. And this is the List building lifestyle. The podcast for anyone who wants to build a wildly profitable email list working from home. If you’d like to make six figures, travel the world and help people improve their lives in the process. This podcast is for you. I also invite you to claim a free copy of my best-selling book, The List Building lifestyle Confessions of an email millionaire at www.igorsbook.com Get the free book plus $3,000 bonus package that includes my best capture page templates, email swipe files, and traffic blueprints, visit www.igorsbook.com for details. And now it’s time to claim your list building lifestyle

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One of my all-time, definitely in the top five all-time favorite books, self-development books that everybody should read, and there’s, there’s a great version of it on audible.com. It’s called Outwitting the Devil, originally written by Napoleon Hill. And then it was kind of like the rights to it were purchased by a bunch of different people over the years. But now somebody has it, this female entrepreneur bought it. And then she published it. I would highly recommend it, if you want to get pretty much never ending, undying, evergreen, driving passion and motivation to do what needs to be done and to change your life. If you want to never struggle with procrastination, and feeling lost. You want to listen to that book. That book puts everything in perspective and one of the biggest messages there. And you know, this is so so true, and a message that is almost never found in any other self development books if I’m honest with you, and I’ve read quite a few of them, is that, the devil, in this case, the devil is being used as a way to describe anything that’s not deliberate achievement, right? Anything that’s not improving your life, so, that would be the devil right? So, the devil is looking for people and wants people to be drifters is a great concept from that book called Drifters. So, what is a drifter? A drifter is somebody who doesn’t have a specific, clear goal or purpose and is making themselves busy or distracted with things just to keep themselves occupied. You know, drifters are drug addicts. Drifters are alcoholics. Drifters are people who want to be entertained all the time and don’t necessarily create or do anything. Drifters are people who do not have a mission in life, and therefore, they need to fill that life with noise. Okay, now there is a bit of a drifter in each and every one of us. So, I don’t want you to judge yourself too harshly on this, because I even play video games every now and again, to distract myself, right? But this is spoken from, from a position of, you know, in your waking hours, you know, in the hours where you have the most energy and the hours where you have the most drive and passion. Are you investing that drive passion, energy and resources into achieving your specific goal? Do you know what that goal is? Do you have 100 reasons for it? You know, many times I told you guys about how I ended up moving to Canada, how I was procrastinating about it for a long time, but I knew I needed to make that move sooner or later because the things are we’re getting really, really dangerous in Israel from a number of different perspectives. And, you know, I went to a seminar in the US and they came back and my mentor said, look, you’re never going to move unless you have a really long list of reasons why you need to move and you’re clear on it. So why don’t you know, sit down and write me 100 reasons why you need to move to Canada from like, literally just come up with 100 reasons why you absolutely have to move. And I started working on my way back. It was a long flight. It was like going. It’s like three and a half hours from Florida to New York and then layover to Tel Aviv for 13 hours, then you fly from Tel Aviv back from New York back to Tel Aviv. And so, like I had his big journey, right. But at the end of this journey, I had 67 or 60 reasons why I had to move to Canada, they were across different areas of my life that were personal reasons, professional reasons. They were spiritual reasons. Any reason I could think of even if it sounds miniscule, I would still put it on that list. By the time I got to 67, it was basically impossible for me to squeeze anything else that I didn’t already list. But it also created an effect where there was basically no way I would move at this point, because I reasoned with myself now to the point where like, it’s super clear, I have to get on this. So, I had the paperwork sitting on my desk for six months prior to that moment, I came back within the week, we filled out the paperwork, and submitted, submitted everything and within a year and a half, we were, I believe, received the permit to go in. And then it took me another two months to, I believe, get out of my lease, sell my car and do a few other things that were required for me to leave for good. But, you know, having never been to Canada before actually, I went cold turkey and did it. And so, you know, in that moment, I can always refer to that moment as not being a drifter. If there’s anything that’s opposite of a drifter, it’s Igor in that moment, you know, and I don’t recall a moment in my life when being a drifter served me in any way. I don’t recall the moment in my life where I’ve achieved anything, or felt satisfaction of any kind, or felt clarity of any sort, or been motivated to do anything when I acted like a drifter. Even when I do things for fun. I now make it a point to do them as somebody who was really focused and goal oriented, meaning that a drifter basically kind of like sits there on a couch and thinks I’m bored, and then turns on Netflix and watches Netflix, which is fine on some days, and but on other days, not fine. But when I think of what really makes me feel good, what really makes me feel life satisfaction. What really makes me feel like I’m having a good time, and I’m thinking of things like driving really fast cars. I’m thinking of things like shooting guns. I don’t know why, but ever since I was a kid, I have loved it. I’m thinking of things like, you know, going to rock concerts, I’m thinking of things like going to football games, like I have a very specific list of things that always make me feel good that I enjoy very much. So, I’m very deliberate now about doing these things. So, in the past couple of months, I’ve been to five football games all in Europe, which means I had to cross the channel, I had to cross the lake to go see them. I’ve raced really fast cars, I shot really big guns. I flew in a helicopter and a military helicopter and shut it down. I went to several rock concerts and still have three more planned in October in California. I mean, you name it. Like it’s not it’s not what a drifter would do if you understand what I mean. A drifter would just be sitting there on the couch and complaining Why they didn’t go or give me 10 reasons why they couldn’t go to London to see a football game. Well, somebody who’s the opposite of a drifter will make it happen. And that’s really the difference between people who get what they want in life and live a good life, you know well enough to tell the story about it. And the people who live a life look back on it and say that’s it really. Like that’s the difference. It’s like if you’re a drifter, you look back on your life and like that’s it, but if you’re, being deliberate, you get much better outcomes. So yeah, I highly recommend reading Outwitting the Devil. It’s just for general personal development and improving your life in every facet.

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